Alarming Experience.
NARROW ESCAPE, [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Christchurch, last night. When the express train from south CSino ,jn half an hour late last night a rumour spread that a man had been killed by it at Rollestou. Fortunately this turned out to be incorrect.' It appears that when the train’pulled up at Rolleston the passengers informed the guard that a man had fallen off 'the train. ' A search party went hack: to'look for him,''arid'the express came on to town, They found'a man named Patrick Coffee, a labourer, from Thnaru, lying alongside the line, groaning. They carried him to Rolleston junction, and wired to town for a special train, which went out in charge of the Ashley goods agent, and brought the man to town, On being taken to the hospital he was found to be suffering from a bad fracture of the elbow to the right arm. Coffee remembers nothing about the accident until he found himself off the train, he being much under the influence of liquor. ___________
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 22, 28 January 1901, Page 2
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